IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Vendor Profile
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
IDC Perspective
The IDC Perspective is a flexible doc that seeks to help business and tech buyers assess their business and IT strategy and/or associated business processes, especially as it relates to the use of technology. The document can be used in areas such as:
- Strategy and planning
- Trends and observations
- IT spending and investment
- Vendor conferences and announcements
IDC TechBrief
The IDC TechBrief helps the technology or business executive get smart about a single technology in the context of the business by answering 6 business critical questions about the technology:
- What is the technology?
- When should I adopt it?
- What can it do for my business?
- What are the critical success factors?
- What are the risks?
- Who are the suppliers?
Market Note
The Market Note is a flexible doc that provides IDC analysis and point of view on an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development or fast breaking news.
Market Perspective
The Market Perspective is a flexible doc that analyzes key changes and developments happening in the market. This flexible research type can be used to analyze areas such as:
- Competitive Environment
- Innovation & Market Opportunity
- New Business Models
- Partner & Channel Strategy
- Enterprise Strategies (targeted to supplier)
- Regulation
- Socioeconomics
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
IDC Blink
IDC Blink
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece with a 2-minute audio clip. IDC Blinks provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Presentations
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Market Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Tech Buyer Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
IDC Market Glance
Provides a look at the landscape of a tech market, including competitive positioning, adjacent segments, and potential partner opportunities.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a one-time study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
IDC Innovators
IDC Innovators is aimed at informing IT buyers about emerging vendors with an innovative new technology or ground-breaking business model. Vendors identified in the document as innovators are linked together within a specific market area and around solving or alleviating a common business problem. Vendors included have annual revenue under $100 million at the time of selection.
Technology Segment
The IDC Technology Segment offers CEMA clients a comprehensive view of a technology segment in one country or subregion and provides a market view and forecast and/or market share and vendor profiles, including performances and strategies. It is specifically intended to serve smaller country markets and subregions.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation highlights generative AI (GenAI) use case examples for the capital markets industry. IDC believes that the transition to AI everywhere will see the emergence of a range of new generative artificial intelligence-driven ...
The SEC's approval of Ethereum exchange-traded fund product applications from Nasdaq, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) late last week marks another significant milestone for the cryptocurrency ...
This IDC Perspective explores the financial data management themes of data governance, data quality, and data security in the context of evolving data infrastructure and architecture choices and market dynamics. Technologically informed ...
In a defining move, a cornerstone technology infrastructure provider to the international capital markets has publicly announced its plans to develop a platform to facilitate interoperability between central bank digital currencies, digital ...
This IDC PlanScape discusses T+1 settlement technology for the capital markets.
"Accelerated settlement is a natural evolution toward more efficient capital markets made possible through applying workflow design and technology to process-based ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how financial services firms, including capital markets firms, rationalize their exploration of multicloud strategies. This timely commentary explores the intersection of cloud resource utilization and ...
This IDC Market Perspective explores ESG developments impacting the financial sector and the software and data services that address these evolving requirements. This document highlights research from IDC's ESG Perception Survey, ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for blockchain, crypto, NFT, and Web3.
"Decentralized technologies, such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology, NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, will continue to have a major impact ...
This IDC Perspective discusses third-party risk management. The challenges with respect to the range of regulatory requirements, risk management best practices, expanding view of what defines a "third party," data security, data privacy, ...
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for worldwide banking for 2024 and beyond.
"Today's goal for banking worldwide is to overcome the immediate challenges in the markets while mapping out a longer-term strategy for growth ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the capital markets for the next five years.
"Over the next five years, a confluence of external drivers is expected to materially impact the competitive basis on which ...
This IDC FutureScape provides IDC's outlook for the worldwide banking industry for 2024.
"AI is entering the corporate banking arena fast and across a multitude of use cases. Automation, orchestration, predictability, and simplification ...
This IDC Perspective highlights the increasing use cases for generative AI (GenAI) in the capital markets. In an era defined by data, speed, and augmented decision making, the capital markets have discovered a powerful tool in GenAI. As ...
This IDC study defines and discusses four strategic priorities the capital markets are pursuing to become digital-first participants in the global financial markets. This taxonomy defines separate programs that support each strategic priority. ...
This IDC PlanScape explores how digital solutions to increasing regulatory pressure in the capital markets are helping contain the cost of compliance while maintaining a high quality of regulatory requirement delivery.
"The timely ...
Nasdaq perpetuates a technology acquisition trend among exchanges and other market infrastructure providers with a big bet on the value of risk management, regulatory, and capital markets software application provider, Adenza. Nasdaq's successful ...
The application of generative artificial intelligence to pre-trade analysis in the corporate bond market, exemplified by Broadridge's BondGPT feature of its LTX platform, is an important next step in process efficiency, transparency, and ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the primary business drivers behind capital markets organizations' investments in artificial intelligence technology. This timely commentary on the anticipated benefits of artificial intelligence highlights ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines how capital markets organizations have chosen to staff their artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives to generate successful, repeatable outcomes. This timely commentary on the resources dedicated to AI ...
This IDC PlanScape provides a framework for how dealmakers and service providers can embrace virtual hubs to drive efficiency and improve resiliency. It includes use cases and examines success factors for stakeholders wanting to adopt modern ...
This IDC Perspective provides a timely commentary on the prevailing and anticipated adoption of artificial intelligence in collateral management. This document outlines collateral managers' priorities and examines how artificial intelligence ...
This IDC study provides 10 predictions for blockchain, crypto, NFT, and Web3.
"The key takeaway is to ensure that you, and your business, are prepared for the effects of these predictions, as well as for any other changes resulting ...
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions and key drivers for the capital markets for the next five years.
"Over the next five years, a confluence of external drivers is expected to materially impact the competitive basis on which ...
This IDC Financial Insights FutureScape presents the top 10 predictions for the corporate banking industry.
"Caught between a rock and a hard place, the corporate banking industry is facing massive pressure to ensure liquidity and ...